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Personal Growth and Counseling Center

Let's Talk

Let's Talk is a program that provides access to informal consultations with counselors from the Personal Growth and Counseling Center. Students can talk about concerns, problem solve, and identify resources. Counselors are there to listen and provide confidential support. Support is provided in individual and group formats, both in-person and virtually. No topic is off limits, but common concerns include:

  • Stress
  • Academic concerns
  • Relationship concerns
  • Sadness
  • Family problems
  • Time management

Spring 2024

Starting the week of February 5th unless otherwise noted. 

Tuesdays

Cooperative Learning Center 

  • Drop-in individual support 2 - 3:30 p.m. in the Library, 2129

Wednesdays

College Support Programs, Building 47, room 111 and 134

  • Drop-in group space 1:15-2 pm in the College Support Program Lab/Lounge 111
  • Drop-in individual support 2-2:30 pm in building 47, room 134

Thursdays

Building 12 - El Centro, Basic Needs, the Helen Rucker Center, the Service Learning Institute, and the Transfer Student Success Center

  • Drop-in individual support 11:15 am -12:30 pm
  • Alternating locations between El Centro and Helen Rucker Center
    • In El Centro on 2/8, 2/22, 3/7, 3/21, 4/4, 4/18, & 5/2
    • In Helen Rucker Center on 2/15, 2/29/, 3/14, 3/28, 4/11, 4/25, & 5/9

North Salinas Campus Workshops: Thursdays, 12:10-1 p.m. in room 103 

    • March 7:           Imposter Syndrome
    • April 11:             A Better Night’s Sleep
    • April 25:           Mindful Self-Care 

Let's Talk - Parent Wellness

A virtual space where student parents can build community and campus connections, share tips and tools, and discuss shared experiences. Facilitated by PGCC Counselor, Jessica Lopez, LMFT. 

  • Dates TBD

The Let's Talk program at CSUMB is based in part on the Let's Talk program at Cornell University. With permission, some of the material describing this program has been duplicated from Cornell University.

The PGCC would also like to appreciate the generosity of our campus partners: Cooperative Learning Center, College Support Programs, El Centro, Basic Needs, the Helen Rucker Center, the Service Learning Institute, and the Transfer Student Success Center